Forty-One Pages: On Poetry, Language, and Wilderness (Oskana Poetry & Poetics, 4) - Softcover

Steffler, John

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0889775877 ISBN 13: 9780889775879

Publisher: University of Regina Press, 2019

Synopsis

In this series of elegant and wide-ranging meditations on language, wilderness, poetry, and technocracy, John Steffler takes us on a guided tour of one poet's mental workshop. His focus is vividly personal, shaped by his interests and experience, and at the same time universal. What is it to be human? Steffler is not afraid to be provocative, but he is also compassionately alert to moral, political, and cultural complexity. This is a book that will convince you that poetry can indeed make a great deal happen.

About this title

About the Author:

John Steffler is the author of six books of poetry, including The Grey Islands, That Night We Were Ravenous, and Lookout, which was shortlisted for the Griffin Prize. His novel The Afterlife of George Cartwright won the Smithbooks/Books in Canada First Novel Award and the Thomas Raddall Atlantic Fiction Award. From 2006 to 2009 he was Parliamentary Poet Laureate of Canada. John lives in Maberly, ON

Review:

Praise for previous work:

"One of our finest lyric poets." —Ken Babstock

"John Steffler is Canada's most sensuously passionate writer. Reading him, we are put in touch with the pure erotic draw which the world exercises on him. The acuity of his perception, and the size of his heart, make his poems an essential part of our literature." —Don McKay

"Steffler's persona is a diviner, seeking out the ancient energies of the natural world, the atavistic source." —Mary Dalton 

About this edition

• Publisher: University of Regina Press
• Publication date: 2019
• ISBN 10: 0889775877
• ISBN 13: 9780889775879
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 136